The program moves among the most important Italian authors, all born, except Monteverdi, in the latter part of the 1600s.
M. Veracini, a great violinist, born in Florence, was celebrated and in his travels in Europe aroused wonder, but in some cases also much envy for his unmatched bravura. He met Giuseppe Tartini, another violin virtuoso, a citizen of the Venetian Republic whose famous sonata “The Devil’s Trill” Davide Belosio addresses here.
By Antonio Caldara of Naples, a great master of singing, one of his wonderful cantatas for the great soprano Tullia Pedersoli .
By the Venetian Benedetto Marcello a cantata that, in its world premiere edition, was recorded by I Solisti Ambrosiani in August 2025.
Finally by Claudio Monteverdi, from Cremona, the home of the violin, the man who is considered the father of modern music for enacting the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, a composition from the Scherzi Musicali.
PROGRAM
Francis Mary Veracini (1690-1768)
From the Academic Sonatas -Sonatafor violin and continuo Op.2 No.8 in E minor
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736)
Cantata for soprano, violin and continuo “Resoluto son già”
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Sonata for violin and continuo “The Devil’s Trill”
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Cantata for soprano and continuo “Dimando a voi pietà”
(world premiere recorded track, published by Tactus, August 2025)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Et is therefore also true, SV250
from Musical Jokes, Bartolomeo Magni, Venice, 1632